skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that what makes a billionaire CEO special is purposefully de-specialized by Culture. A Culture citizen is effectively richer than most (with exceptions), but does not have any more power than other Culture citizens. They do not have power over others, except for the effective social standings related to various things - from which anyone can effectively leave, even possibly faking one's own death. Any bondage to the social status is self-made, as can be seen in some more eccentric characters, unless one breaks some of the few taboos that Culture has - like non-consensual mind control, murder, etc.
It's funny I remember a quote from Bill Gates saying that he wanted to pay more in taxes but that if it was 99% that's a different story. But doesn't that work out to like $1B or more. So, does that mean he wouldn't have founded Microsoft if he only got a measly $1B?
You just time the operation to minimize risk of wildfires, which is already pretty low in a rainforest.

The only challenge I see is that the folks running the saws and the skidders aren't the ones profiting from the operation. So maybe you take some extra precautions to avoid killing the crew, but destroying the equipment seems like a perfectly acceptable use of resources.
Yup, I think everywhere except USA bank accounts are like email addresses. Government just needs to know your bank account number to pay stimulus. Taxes are paid to the government bank account. In Europe it has been this way since 80's. This solves the practical issue of moving money, I don't know about the other points. So called "wire" transfers are possible, but it's not used because it's scary or something?
>"Ikea uses about one percent—yes, one percent—of the world's entire commercial wood supply. That amounts to about 17.8 million cubic yards of lumber last year.

Yeah, seems a little over the top to me too.

Ikea makes particle board furniture. Particle board is basically glue plus waste products from all the other things that use wood. You might as well complain that the dog food and fertilizer industries uses some % of the world's meat.
> Zoom call you can basically ignore while you read HN? Not work.

Still work: if it’s preventing you from focusing but not personal time, it’s work. Your employer choosing to waste your time on low productivity meetings is something to try to improve but you shouldn’t feel any obligation to make up for it with your own free time.
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The three body problem is sort of inverted magical realism. Everything that’s usually fake in magical realism (like the physics) is rendered with care and respect- and everything that’s usually real (the people and their interactions) is fake and dreamlike.
What’s that got to do with what I wrote?

Nothing, as far as I can see. If someone writes some crappy security software and hides behind a licence that only means those relying on it have joined them in being irresponsible. Responsibility multiplies, it’s not zero-sum.
You talking politics in a coding thread?!
It's a publication oriented towards business types. Of course any salaried employee is by definition a slacker to be whipped.
Oh snap. The diapers astronaut lady.
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Are there any public forums on Briar? I'd kinda like to try out that aspect of it (and the blogs) but it suffers somewhat from a blank canvas when first setting it up :D

Edit: Looking closer I see contacts have to share forums, which is a shame. Would be nice to be able to join directly from a code.
I never understood why people hate IKEA. Yes it's cheap. Yes it doesn't last a lifetime. Yes it needs a lot of wood. Yes it's highly optimized.

But guess what, IKEA is a business responding to the needs of people. The negatives that are mentioned frequently are merely a symptom of our ever faster developing society. The people who complain are the same ones that just buy cheap crap from china without even thinking about it.

IKEAs ability to produce products that people actually need, at such a scale, is amazing to me. It does what it promises. It's cheap. It fills most people's needs fully. Customer support is perfect. I know in 10 years replacements for their core products will still be available. Their way of innovating the products is genius.

I can't think of any other company that even comes close. Well, maybe LEGO.
Fstoppers also made this video to go with it, it shows what they mean very well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TTXY1Se0eg
I mean. I'm pretty sure I've got delayed phase sleep and I don't particularly enjoy waking up that early, but out of everything that'll do the job this one involves the least grumbling and the walk helps me get my brain in gear.
bitcoin is not a currency, it's not a "money"
You can just read the many, many articles on cancel-culture and de-platforming that have emerged in the last few years which is all a part of the same thing and overwhelmingly a problem from the left.

Presumably the right-wing are just as capable (and historically have been the aggressor often), but the left have mastered it as a form recently.
Wood rots in landfills. You have to char it to stop that.
In which case will make a very nice marketing speech for AMD
I - and many other Americans - envy your access to choice of multiple ISPs.
TL;DR: If you auto-upgrade your setuptools version during your app deployment, your deployment pipeline will crash when version 46 or later is installed.
So the missing link would be a second page in the manual where the reverse path from furniture back to flatpack is described? A nightmarish challenge, definitely makes me the Ikea manual guy with the questionmark, ready to phone into the help line.
Their competition is owned by MS, and doesn't need to worry about turning a profit on their activity.

Note that I'm not justifying the behaviour, just commenting on it.
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This is the kind of "technically correct" that is "usefully wrong".

The concept of "lens compression" is understood to include composing the subject to the same apparent size with the different lenses. Yes, of course standing in one place and compositing multiple telephoto shots will create the same image as a single wide angle shot. That's not how people shoot. You're not going to compose a 3/4ths portrait shot with a telephoto, swap lenses, and just stand there. You're going to walk in on the subject and recompose to a 3/4ths portrait.
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Yes, people should be more like lawyers. Bill for that time you spent in the shower thinking about your clients case.

That reads sarcastic, but in today’s workplace you really need to know the legal framework you’re working within or you’ll probably be fleeced or worse. How lawyers charge actually is instructive.
Did it already :-)
Good idea putting twitter link on your profile
First, not all crony beliefs have to be necessarily false :)

But seriously - if you are presented with evidence that when not all citizens have human rights then everyone is more well-off and happier than when all citizens have human rights, and after finding no errors in the data or logic, will you automatically dismiss it or reassess your belief?

If you would reassess your belief then it's not a crony belief. Of course, you might never need to reassess it, but being open to the possibility that it might need rethinking is what keeps it from being a crony belief
Why else do you think I'm commenting here?
https://splitkb.com/ Is in NL and the owner is very accessible. I hung out in their discord for a while during my research phase and leaned a lot.
> that there's entire classes of people who never do anything as satisfying as coding during their day. All they do is communicate in some way: making powerpoints, schmoozing with customers over lunch, sitting in meetings to discuss what the business should do

As someone who finds coding completely unsatisfying and who instead chose to have a career sitting in meetings to discuss what the business should do, I find this pretty funny.

I can’t imagine anything being as satisfying as communicating well with another person.
And isn't that wonderful? "admit" implies they should feel ashamed?
Two of the mentioned studies seem to be related to the question whether violent games and movies influence our behaviour.

Assuming Qian Zhang's work is fraudulent, what was his agenda? That violent games are OK, or the opposite?
Information travels very quickly through a medium that wishes it to be true.

You will find that the ability of the human mind to be critical, to refute with very salient arguments is suddenly acute when the mind doesn't wish it to be true, and this definitely also applies to H.N. comments.

That H.N. in this case is so accepting to this one side of the story suggests to me that this is the side it seems to want to be true, notwithstanding it might entirely be, or not be, true.
Hopefully one day we can get to where Visual Basic was in the 90's.
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I’m not saying cancellation should be illegal or whatever, but that isn’t healthy. You can’t let a minority of extremists (and it is a minority) muzzle everyone. It turns over control of the culture to them and that’s extremely dangerous.
I did see someone linked documentation for how they did a build recently in the pfSense subreddit when this same article was posted there, so I guess it is in fact possible, but the process was certainly nowhere close to straightforward.

I really do enjoy the platform, I have dozens of Netgate SG-series devices deployed to clients and they work great, but I do find it hugely disappointing that it seems very clear that Netgate does not want anyone else producing builds of pfSense-derived software even if it's properly rebranded.

Their official claims that it's purely about the branding falls apart when you compare what's involved in building "nonSense" compared to Chromium, Iceweasel, etc.
It took me ages to find a wired USB mouse that didn't light up like a damn Christmas tree. I think there are about three such models on the market.
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Downsizing creates a market opening for cabinets, shelves, organizers and other things that let you utilize vertical space more efficiently.
It's Blind, so this is to be taken with a massive grain of salt. Even though they have a strict registration policy, there's plenty of trolls there.
I've only played briefly with it some years ago on a Linux installation but one thing that i found neat was that unlike something Visual Basic or Delphi (which were clear inspirations - i think this screenshot[0] with the entire UI makes it a bit more obvious than the windows in the linked site) is that it is a "live" environment (pretty much like tclsh and wish) you are working with (kinda like a Smalltalk, though probably not to the same extent).

(though FWIW classic VB is a sort of in-between because you are editing the actual forms and state you'd see running - which is most likely why you can't edit a form while the program is running and the IDE even "hides" them - but there is an intentional distinction between "running" and "editing")

[0] https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/vtcl/screenshots/49571.jpg
That we only seem to be reading this terrible story in Newsweek (despite the facts being there to see) suggests then that "SEO scams" are doing a better job than mainstream journalists in some cases.
Consider Phlebas is hard read, and considered the weakest book in the story.

Excession is probably the most different one, as a lot of it is essentially email logs, and doesn't deal much with the utopian elements except as far background (a lot of the main characters are at least a little eccentric from Culture point of view).

Look to Windward has a lot of the Utopia, but is IMHO quite good read except maybe for some of the chapters happening outside of Culture. Use of Weapons happens pretty much entirely outside of the main Culture body.
Yes I do, for the past 6 months or so.
I don't know if I could find people that are entrepreneurs, that has similar interests and have a family here in Bali, but I could try :)
I have been doing that for about 30 years so unsustainable I wouldn't say. But yeah, it i would like to work a bit less anyway.
When I saw “13,000 regexes” I thought of the adage, “the plural of regex is regrets”.

But here it seems like a good choice to build on a battle-tested library of regrets, and it's clearly working well for them.

The demo looks slicker than the typical Grammarly/MS Word/native macOS grammar and spelling corrections, for those who missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl0nb94N98k&feature=emb_imp_...

And the ability to flag false positives, send suggestions back, and see metrics of how the system's being used is just awesome.
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This may, in fact, backfire in a couple of ways:

1. It may reduce societal pressure to isolate by making it seem only a minority of people are actually doing it (much like the broken windows theory)

2. It fuels distrust in media outlets. Deservingly so, even if machiavellianly this choice seems to serve the greater good.
> is this just clickbait

It's ideological reinforcement for their target audience. Most managers and business types have no idea what their underlings actually do, but they have a suspicion that they are not the lean-mean-money-makin'-machine they (ideally) should be. So business-oriented publications like this pander to their fears and strengthen their resolve to whip slackers into shape.
This appears absolutely to be clickbait posted for entertainment value.

The actual phrasing of the single question appears to be about "real" or "focussed" work which many people seem to have interpreted as being "not meetings" or "other work I do which I feel is pointless busywork" - certainly how I would interpret it.
If you compare Ikea furniture to the comparable items you get from Target or Walmart, Ikea is hands down far better quality. Sure it might not last generations, but it is affordable and built from basically sawdust so I have to imagine their 1% usage comes from simply the scale of their production rather than inefficiency or anything like that.
That's a dealbreaker for me. Not only you need to deal with quirks, bugs and feature-parity with lates OSes of Vue Native, now you also need to deal with the same for React Native. This is a bit too much for me, it's nice when it works but sucks when it stops to work and you spend the whole day to nail down some framework-specific issues.
It's going to be so interesting when this is over, all the strange habits we will have made and will have a hard time to let go of.

It also gives me pause to think that some people will never recover (bordering on mental illness), some people will forever be afraid of physical closeness to others after going through this.
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The advantage is that you can access ~100% of the mobile market with a single codebase for about 10% extra work compared to native on a single platform.

Performance is roughly the same and you have access to most of the platform features that most apps need.
Does this article have anything new to say? It is basically rewriting the main article and laughing about how dumb he is. I was hoping they would actually address his points. I've never lived in Austin or SV so I have nothing to go by but what the original article wrote.

So, does Austin have an issue of lack of public parks? Do roofs have to get replaced frequently due to hail?
HN is particularly cynical though, the top post on nearly every article is negative.
Looks interesting but from what I can tell currently isn't available on app stores to immediately try out. It does at least have a nice logo which is ultimately enough to make me try something :p

I'd like to see the slew of new messengers coming out also address one of the few areas keeping people on Facebook: group event planning. There's lots of places to chat, but not many alternatives for sharing and planning events with a wider group of people. Briar seems to offer blog and forum concepts, which is interesting, but everything seems to be lacking in the "event" aspect and that's unfortunately a bit of a sticking point for a lot of Facebook users (it's primarily what I use it for, still).
I'm aware of that, but that was an afterthought. Anyway, it's not made to be stared at, and with light modulation it's quite faint when the room is dark. so I don't think it matters in the end.
I think people have to get more serious about separating science as a procedure from scientism (that is, philosophical issues that are often discussed in tandem). When one uses the phrase, “science denier”, it often means, “you don’t agree with my philosophy/metaphysics/economic policy” rather than “you deny these particular facts”, which causes people to be rightly concerned. I’m not optimistic that this is going to change anytime soon, but this, I think, accounts for many of the issues in current discourse.
Scapegoats and targets of witch hunts notwithstanding, nobody goes to jail for doing what is the local norm.
A lot of comments here are to the effect that the things they do when "not working" are actually work of some fashion.

For me, I promise you that is not the case. I've always been a lazy motherfucker. I didn't get into automating things with technology because I liked to work, after all. Over the past 10 years I'd say I did honestly work a full work day when I was my most productive, but my median work day was probably around 3 hours/day. As in, I spent the rest of it reading books in a terminal so it looked like I was doing work, or something similarly useless to my employer.

My employer never complained, and in fact I earned a reputation for being the guy who can get to the bottom of hard problems, deliver the simplest and quickest solution to an immediate need, or reason out and mitigate for all the ways something could go wrong. I would say I was actually good at my job despite not actually working that much. Thus, I am constantly annoyed that my employer is so insistent on butts-in-seats, to the extent that during a global pandemic I've only been working from home during the time I was contagious with the goddamned plague (all of my department caught it thanks to this policy).

Due to my rapidly failing mental health, I'd say I put in a median 3 hours/week of work right now. Still, very few people seem to have noticed and no one has said anything.
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Why would it be racist?

I have noticed in English-language discourse that often, shall-we-call-it, “non-white countries” are “races” but “white countries” are “nations”.

Also, Christianity and Judaïsm are religions, but Islām is a race.

Explain me that.
There's a lot hiding in that one word, "using".

What exactly were they "used" for?
I would imagine that on the Android side of things are also not that different.

The simple fact that there even _is_ an iOS side and an Android side is a large part of what makes cross-platform development appealing.
Especially when you WFH, or at least that's how it's been for me.

I get up pretty early, so I like getting a lot of work done before 9am standup. By then I've usually lost motivation/focus and may work an hour or 2 more. I really get mileage out of the "work always fills the time allotted for it" law.

Half of me can't wait to get back to an office where I'm with others which provides motivation/pressure to work, but the other half does not want to deal with the commute.
I'm on the fence about Dillermand, but the article links to another article about another Danish children's TV show, Ultra Strips Down, and that is an interesting article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/world/europe/denmark-chil...
If it's really a short squeeze, then I think it's unfair to say that it's a bubble caused by small retail investors. It's actually a bubble caused by overexposed shorters who are forced to buy at any price due to their own doings. Of course noone likes when the small man makes money at the expense of big wall street firms, but it takes some mental gymnastics to view simply buying and then not selling as a more nefarious financial instrument than shorting.
I could buy that argument a lot easier if they treated their workers better.
I'd say pleasure, but you would have to thank me first.
Yeah, this goes back to the whole "Open Source and corporate funding" story. As far as I can find, sudo doesn't get any direct funding at the moment, although various companies have undoubtedly contributed patches.
all of the options can probably claim that...
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Yeah this is what I was going to say. There are a few projects which allow one to swap out the firmware for a custom one on Advantage Kinesis keyboards. There's one with a teensy, one with a custom controller. It's not exactly trivial to do, but I think it is the ultimate if you want to go that route. The hardware design of the Kinesis is top tier, but the software is a bit weak.
There’s no solution because it’s not a technical problem. Something is broken in our culture.
The article is concerned with the USA and apparently this country is a laggard in introducing a linked bank account for government payments.

For comparison, the Danish government - in no way a fast mover - introduced a similar scheme, “Nemkonto” (Easy account), by legislation in 2003.
I wish these technologies were around when I was a kid.
It allows any react native components to work in vue native.

Pretty valuable actually.
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Could you give a couple examples of such missing features?
I have IKEA socks (probably illegally made by https://theholeinmysock.com/shop/women/ikea-socks/) and tend to wear them in summer. People often compliment me for this odd choice of socks. Others find it confusing. However when I ask them if they prefer IKEA or LEGO as a brand they still choose IKEA. Statistically insignificant but I thought I’d still share.
Arguably the unspoken social contract of Culture is how the real power and means of production are shared by all.

We're seeing Culture at the point where they deliberately curtailed what's considered normal evolutionary path of civilisation, but several times it's mentioned that when Culture turned independent, Minds weren't "like Gods, on the far side", but the core argument behind the breakaway was that the groups that formed Culture figured free redistribution combined with some significant resourcing models allowed them to "disengage" from capitalism and warfare related to their parent societes.
Good luck hosting such an extension on Chrome.
I forsee some problems with people being able to literally lock themselves in different realities in real life depending on their personal views
I wonder if the word "genitals" is allowed. @dang?
That seems like a typo. The title says “opposite”, and just before specifying 45 degrees, the article says the layers are at a “right angle” to one another. Looking at their other products, they seem to differentiate on bonding strength and surfacing, which is pretty common.
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I'm sure that's the case, and it will be up to the managers to be aware of unconcious bias on these types of reports and judge them respectively, but that's not going to raise a storm on twitter about a single person complaining about bad behaviour, or link that single complaint to an evidenced based dismissal later down the line.